Archaeology Notes

Event ID 679289

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN90NW 13 9087 0809.

(NN 9087 0809) Ogilvie Castle (NR).

OS 6" map, (1958)

The ruins of Ogilvy Castle.

NSA 1845.

Sir Alexander Murray of Ogilvy is mentioned c.1391.

W Drummond 1831.

The remains of this rectangular building are in very ruinous condition. The south wall has completely gone; the north, east and west walls, broken and turf-covered, are c.1.2m high, except at the NW, SW and SE angles where the height varies from 1.7m at the SE angle to 3.0m at the NW angle. The interior is choked with grass-covered masonry but the building appears to have been divided into two unequal compartments, the smaller occupying the west end. Local opinion favours the spelling 'Ogilvie'.

Visited by OS (W D J) 21 June 1967.